. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . A spring of Chalybeate Water was discoverednear the termination of Andrews Point in the sum-mer of 1872. The following is the State Assayerstestimony as to its composition and qualities: — State Assaykhs Office,Boston, Sept. 5. 1872. I liave made a chemical analysis of tlie water from the vSpringsat Ocean View, Pigeon Cove, ^Lass., and find that one imperialgallon (ten pounds of it) yields one hundred and twenty-eight grainsof solid matters, of which tlie most important is Oxide of Iron,•which exists as a Carbonate, and Sulphate of Iron. The Oxide of Iron in a gall
. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . A spring of Chalybeate Water was discoverednear the termination of Andrews Point in the sum-mer of 1872. The following is the State Assayerstestimony as to its composition and qualities: — State Assaykhs Office,Boston, Sept. 5. 1872. I liave made a chemical analysis of tlie water from the vSpringsat Ocean View, Pigeon Cove, ^Lass., and find that one imperialgallon (ten pounds of it) yields one hundred and twenty-eight grainsof solid matters, of which tlie most important is Oxide of Iron,•which exists as a Carbonate, and Sulphate of Iron. The Oxide of Iron in a gallon of water weighs twenty-fourgrains. The other matters are Sulphate of Soda, Chlorides ofSodium and Calcium. The water is a true Clialybeate MineralWater, having decided tonic properties. C. T. Jackson, ,State Assnycr. 180 PIGEON* COVE AND VICINITY. SEA-AXIMALS, SEA-WEEDS, AND HALIBUT POINT. The wonders of the sea are beyond whatever pomt approached, they more andmore unveil to the vision. Though the curious,searching for them, never look farther over thelowest tide-line than they can see, they walk toand fro on the granite stairs slanting into theocean as on the border of. a l)r()ad demesneof forest, pasture, field, and garden, adornedAvith all manner of vegetation, from minute anddelicate plants, rivalling the most frail and tenderilowers on the land, to the rankest and tallestgrowths, swayed by the tides, as are the trees andshrul)s on the hillsides by the winds; and stockedwitli creatures innumerable, some of which roamabout in quest of food, selecting from time to timenew j)laces of rest, others abiding throughout theirlifetime on the same spots, tliousands of themclinging to the sides of rocks, thousands dwellingwithin shallow basins on the shore, thousandsinhabiting deep and shadowy dens a little removedfrom the shore. SEA-ANIMALS, SEA
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